Strangers on a Train

 “How far are you going?”
“Oh, all the way!”
“All the way to where?”
“All the way to where I am going!”
“What a coincidence, so am I.”
“You can’t be, you don’t live with me.”
“No, but I am going all the way.”
“When you think about it we are all going all the way.”
“No, I have noticed some people getting off before me.”
“Weren’t they going all the way for them?”
“Well maybe but just not for me.”
“I am going to the end of the line.”
“Well so am I, but which end?”
“Well if I left at the beginning there can be but one end.”
“But how do you know you started at the beginning.”
“Because that’s where I got on.”
“But there could have been a stop before you got on.”
“No, I had to get on where I did it’s where I work.”
“Ok but you say you are going to the end of the line.”
“But I am going to the end of the line.”
“How do you know? There could be a stop after you get off
“But how would I know if I’ve already got off?”
“But what would happen if you didn’t get off?”
“I’d be late for dinner”
“Is that all?”
“Well my wife would fall out with me
We’d fight and argue we might even split up
Get divorced, have a battle over the children
Lose that custody battle, become an alcoholic
Lose my job, my season ticket for the train would be worthless,
I would get depressed, I might get suicidal, I might kill myself”
And all because I got off at the wrong stop.”
“But then you’d certainly be at the end of the line.”
“Well no, that depends.”
“But you’d be dead.”
“Yes but there’ the afterlife to consider.”